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preliterate

adj

Etymology

From pre- + literate.

  1. derived from lītterātus
  2. inherited from litterate
  3. prefixed as preliterate — “pre + literate”

Definitions

  1. that has not yet developed a written language

  2. who has not yet learned to read and write

  3. a member of such a culture

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preliterate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA